This has been an interesting topic to follow. Obama has been a reluctant supporter of NASA from the beginning of his political career. Before the presidential race even begun, he was claiming to be in support of budget cuts from NASA. As time progressed he started showing that he was still sympathetic to NASA but skeptical of where the program was headed. He argued that children today aren’t as inspired by space exploration as they were 20 years ago. In the months preceding election day it seemed he began to jump on board with NASA. He said he would support an additional $2 billion in annual funding. Some people speculated that it was an election gimmick to get voters in Florida. Whether that’s true or not it seems once again there is issues between NASA and Obama. In a recent meeting between Obama’s transition team and NASA there was a dispute over the constellation project. Obama was considering dropping the Ares rocket research. I tend to partially agree with Obama here. If you read my space elevator entry you know I am against the constellation project but I don’t think cutting funding is the answer. Shifting funding to conceptually revolutionary projects would spark interest in America’s youth again and that is exactly what Obama wanted in the first place.